in a weekend

Monday, March 23, 2009

There was knitting this weekend. My new favorite "go to" baby gift set.I have been making the Dulaan Hat for a couple of years and just found the link on Ravelry. Using size 10 1/2 needles and a ball of Lambs Pride Bulky, you can knit that hat in an hour. With the remaining yarn I make thumbless mittens joined by an i-cord. The i-cord was my favorite on my kids mittens. Heck. I wish they would still let me put i-cords on their mittens. I can't stand searching for lost mittens.

{Cast on 16 stitches, K2, P2 for 6 rows, change to stockinette and increase 4 stitches across, 1 at each end and one on the 8th and 9th stitch. Continue until piece measures 4 3/4 inch, placing marker in between the 10th and 11th stitch on last WS row. Next row RS k1, k2tog, k to within 3st from marker, sl1, k1, psso, k1, slip marker, k1, k2tog, k to last 3 st, k2tog, k1. P 1 row. Repeat these 2 rows 1x more. (12 st) Next row, k2tog across (6 st). Next row, p2tog across. Run yarn through remaining 3 st. Sew sides together. Weave in ends. Make a 3 st i-cord long enough to run through 2 sleeves and back of baby/toddler. Join to mittens.}And there was baking. Chocolate n' Cream cookies from April '09 everyday food. Anyone else try those? I had to double the amount of butter in the cookies and the cream filling. Well worth it. We devoured those and now have to make more.

Sweet, adorable and fabulous "go to" baby gift. Heck, I'd love me some i-cords on my gloves. How wonderfully youthful would that be as we strut around town running errands? :D

And because you ARE an inspiration...your photography, your joy in family, and your creative arts...so much so that I find myself lost in poetry with each visit here, there is a little token of cyberlove over at my blogspot. Thank you, Leslie, for opening up your world, closing the distance in miles, and sharing your person!

what a darling baby set! I've printed your instructions and will likely give this a try for a quick gift at some point. and yes, I saw the cookies in the everyday food - haven't gotten around to making them yet, but your praising recommendation makes me feel like I 'need' to.

Wow the baby gift is sooo cute. So are those cookies by the way. I was thinking of making them...why did you have to double the butter? I can imagine they were terribly diet friendly beforehand but now...

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